The air was silent.
Not a single person made even the slightest peep of a sound.
They were engrossed.
Engrossed in the web of mysteries that subsumed their entire world.
Distant, unconnected things seemed to offer connections beyond their wildest fathoming.
It reeked of conspiracy.
A grand, cosmic conspiracy from the very universe itself.
Despite being highly scientific and grounded rational people, for a moment, every single one of them let their curiosity and imagination run wild. They wondered if their planet was some sort of experiment or artificial creation by some third party or entity.
They wondered if some of the wilder theories and hypotheses about this universe, such as simulation theory, were true. There was no scientific grounding for any of these theories by any means, but there appeared to be no possible way that Gaia could be possible within the laws of physics as they had known them.
